The Torrents / Oriel Gray.
Publication details: Strawberry Hills : Currency Press, 2016.Description: xiv, 62 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781925005950
- Australian drama -- 20th century
- Journalists -- Drama
- Families -- Drama
- Newspapers -- Australia -- Drama
- Newspaper employees -- Australia -- Drama
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Drama
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Drama
- Newspaper employees -- Australia -- Drama
- Newspapers -- Australia -- Drama
- Australian
- A822.3 23
- Co-winner with Summer of the seventeenth doll, of the Playwrights' Advisory Board's award for the Best Play in 1955.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 822.3 GRA | Available | 067742 |
First published in 1988 in Australian women's writing. Penguin, Melbourne.
Annotation. Koolgalla is a gold town, but the gold rush is beginning to wane. In the office of the Koolgalla Argus, the editors must decide between protecting old interests and investing in the farmland of the future. The new editorial assistant, J G Milford, arrives -- but it turns out the J stands for Jenny. The Torrents is a forgotten classic. In 1955 it was the co-winner, with Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, of the Playwrights Advisory Boards award for Best Play. Yet while Lawlers play is considered a defining feature of Australian theatre, The Torrents is underappreciated and was perhaps ahead of its time. Currency Press is proud to re-publish this crucial work, whose themes of media chauvinism, environmental destruction and corrupt powers are chillingly relevant today. (3 acts, 10 male, 2 female).
Co-winner with Summer of the seventeenth doll, of the Playwrights' Advisory Board's award for the Best Play in 1955.
